Re: Can we assume SIGQUIT and friends are defined?

2016-09-12 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > What's the story with HAVE_IO_COMPLETION_PORT? Do we know what that is for? Yes, though I could't have told you that yesterday. An IO completion part is a place where a process doing asynchronous I/O can look to see which such requests have completed, rather analogous to looking a

Re: Can we assume SIGQUIT and friends are defined?

2016-09-12 Thread Hal Murray
> Good point. I think they can go. OK. I'll remove them. There is also SIGDANGER. I think that is something about running low on memory on AIX. What's the story with HAVE_IO_COMPLETION_PORT? Do we know what that is for? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___

Re: Can we assume SIGQUIT and friends are defined?

2016-09-12 Thread Mark Atwood
make sure they are defined by the posix level we are targeting On Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 4:01 PM Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Hal Murray : > > > > Our current code has ifdefs for SIGQUIT and several others. That may > have > > been leftover from Windows. > > > > man 7 signal says: > >First the

Re: Can we assume SIGQUIT and friends are defined?

2016-09-12 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > Our current code has ifdefs for SIGQUIT and several others. That may have > been leftover from Windows. > > man 7 signal says: >First the signals described in the original POSIX.1-1990 standard. > > > Can we remove those ifdefs? If not, what environment are we consid

Can we assume SIGQUIT and friends are defined?

2016-09-12 Thread Hal Murray
Our current code has ifdefs for SIGQUIT and several others. That may have been leftover from Windows. man 7 signal says: First the signals described in the original POSIX.1-1990 standard. Can we remove those ifdefs? If not, what environment are we considering that doesn't have them?